Fan-fold web



April 1 1924.

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UNITED STATES l 1,488,522 PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR WOODWARD, F BABYLON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO REMINGTON TYPWRITER COMPANY, IOF ILION, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

FANrFOLD WEB.'

Application led September 15, 1928. Serial No. 662,794.

example of a typewriting machine especiallyv designed for use with su'ch fan-fold webs is disclosed in the patent to Arthur W. Smith, No. 1,287,123, dated December 10, 1918. In use in suchmachines carbon sheets are inserted between the plies of the fan-fold web for the production of manifold copies when the original is written. The use of a fan-fold web has distinct advanta es in that its different plies and interleave car-l b'on sheets may be fed through the machine together, with the superposed printed blanks and writing. maintained in register, and 'without one ply or sheet creeping relatively to another. v It has been customary to make the web from a single piece of paper folded'longi-- tudinally to form the fan-fold. A. distinct disadvantage which presents itself in the use of such al web is that the quality of paper is of a uniform character throughout. If a good quality of paper is employed this makes its use expensive, since an inferior quality of paper for the olice vcopies would sufiice. if, on the other hand, an inexpensive paper is used, this presents the objection of having to send such inferior quality of paper to the customer.

By my invention I overcome these diiculties and provide a fan-fold web which 40 has all of the advantages derived from the use of such a web, without any of the attendant difficulties. In accordance with my nvention, I provide a composite fan-fold web in .which different plies have different characteristics. Thus, the ply or plies on which the typewritten copies that are to go to the customer are written may be made of a coniparatively superior quality of paper, `whereas the plies,v on which the copies for otlice use e0 are written may be of a comparatively inferior quality. Then, again, the customers copy may be written on a ply of comparatively heavy stock and the manifold copies for office use may be written on comparatively light stock; affording better manifolding than would be the'case were all of the plies made from a comparatively heavy stock. Then, again, it may be found desirabl'eto' have the paper of the bill or fillediii blankwhich goes to the customer of a dltferent color from that intended for oice copies. Any or all of these results may be attained by -a fan-fold web constructed in accordance with my invention.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, my Vinvention consists 1n a fan-fold web constructed as set fortliin the following description and particularly pointed out in the accompanyingclaims.

Inl the accompanying drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding` parts ofthe different views,

igure 1 is a face view of a work sheet i o r web made in accordance with my invention and showing the sheet as `it appears before'it is folded into a fan-fold formation.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the web folded and creased ready for use and with the carbon sheets inserted in place.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of a modified form of fan-fold web constructed in accordance with my invention. y Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be Seen that the web as; shown comprises four Seotions or plies 1, 2, 3 and 4, although any suit-able number of such sections may be employed. The web is preferably. scored, or otherwise suitably weakened longitudiasA nally thereof along the lines 5, 6 and 7 in order that the sections may be readily separated along such lines and alon the lines of the folds coincident therewith. Each section may, if desired, have a succession of forms printed thereon longitudinally of the section, and with lines a reading across the web. y In the present instance the sections 1 and 3 have the forms printed on the. ex

posed .side of the web as it is shown in' Fig.

1, whereas the sections 2 and 4 have the same forms printed on the opposite side of the web. Corresponding forms onthe four sections register whenthe web is folded into the fanfold formation shown in Fig. 2; the sec-tion l being the outermost or original,7 to receive the direct imprint from the machine. Any writing produced on a form on the section 1 will be reproduced through the interleaved carbon sheets 8 in a corresponding osition on each of the other correbe filed, Whereas' the original blank or billl when filled in and detached from the sectionl The sections 2, 3 and 4 may be made from a continuus 1 is to be sent tothe customer.

, web of paper of comparatively `inferior quality, since the filled in blanks or bills detached therefrom are intended merely to led a'vvayv as oiiice copies. The section 1 'beyond its scored line 5, overlaps a bottom s'ide edge portion of the section 2, as indicated at 1, and is attached thereto, prefer- 4 the remittance.

ably by pasting the overlapping ortionof the section 1 to the section 2. 1e section -1 being a separate sheet attached to the remainder of the web may be of a different character from the latter. Since the filledin bills or blanks detached from the section lare the originals intended to be sent to the customer, this section may be made from a better "grade of paper, or from heavier stock, or have a different color from the remainder of the web. Or it may be desirable to include all of these distinctions in this section.

In some instances it is desirable to send two filled-'in blanks or bills to the customer,

one of which is intended to be retained by the customer for his records and the other of which is t0 be returned to the sender with It may therefore` be found desirableto have both copies sent to the customer made out on a better quality of paper than that used for the file or ofice copies. In Fig. 3 I have illustrated a fanfold sheet made -to meet these requirements, and in which the, first two sections 10 and 11 are made from a single web of paper of comparatively superior quality, bein preferably scored along the fold 12 t ereof. This sheet, beyond its opposite line 13 of scoring, is extended so Ithat it may overlap and be pasted to a Side edge portionof the adjacent section 14, as indicated at 15. The remaining plies or sections 16, 17 and 18 are formed integral with the section 14, all of such sections being made from a comparatively inferior grade of paper, or paper .having diiferent characteristics from the sheet constituting the plies 10 and 11. Each additional fold 19, 2O and 21 in the web is preferably scored in order that the sections may be readily separated when desired. Other than as herein indicated the fan-fold web .illustrated in Fig. 3 may be made and used in the same manner as the web previously described.

As illustrated in'Fig. 2 the web may be folded transversely at 22 Where one blank is to be dividedV from the next longitudinally of the web, and the parts thus folded may be stacked 'as shown at the left-hand side of t will be understood that in accordance with my invention I not only am-enabled to employ a web in which paper of different plies or layers thereof have different characteristics for the purposes inted out, but

vthe folded web having its dlferent plies or layers connected together alternately at opter on the different sections in registration What I claim as new and desire toy secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. An article of manufacture comprising a fan-fold web superposed layers of which are integral and are` formed from a single web of paper of a comparatively inferior quality and are detachably connected together alternately at their opposite side edges, and a web of paper of a comparatively superior quality detachably secured along one side edge to said fan-fold web and forming an outside layer of the pack to directly receive the Writing from a typewriting machine.

2. An article of manufacture comprising a fan-fold web superposed layers of which are integral and are formed from a single web of paper of a comparatively inferior quality and are detachably connected together alternately at their opposite side edges, said layers having a succession of registering forms printed thereon, and a web of paper of a comparatively superior quality detachably secured along one side edge to said fan-fold web and forming an outside layer of the pack to directly receive the writing from a typewriting machine, said outside layer having a succession of forms which register with said forms on the fan-fold web.

3. An. article of manufacture comprising a fan-fold web superposed layers of which are integral and are formed from a single web of paper of comparatively inferior quality and are detachably connected together alternately at their opposite side edges, and a web of paper of a comparatively superior quality detachably'secured to the fan-fold web by pasting it to the free side edge of an outermost layer of the latter, said superior uality of web forming one or more addltional .layers thatfc'onstitute a continuation of the fan-fold formation lof the first. mentioned web.

4. An article of manufacture comprising a fan-fold web superposed layers of which are integral and are formed from a single web of paper of a comparatively1 inferior quality and are detachably connected together alterregister with said forms on the first mentioned web. i*

Slgned at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and 15 State of New York, this 13th day of September, A. D. 1923.

oscAR WooDWARD.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. SMITH, E. M. WELLS. 

